93-Styles reference

The intention of this page is to have a handy reference of the colors, fonts, audio player appearance, and other components of the site so I can keep it looking more or less consistent.

At the moment I’m getting sort of bored with the default text font style which is like Times Roman or something. I’m about ready to plunge into some other fonts to see if they’ll work with the site and not screw up formatting everywhere.

This is the nice thing about CSS: I can make a change, have it affect the whole site, and if I don’t like it simply change it back.

At the moment, here are the simple header styles:

This is the “h2” header style

This is “h3” style

This is “h4” style (I don’t know what’s going to use any header this small!

I’m still tinkering with the appearance of the sidebars. I probably will make it so links that have already been visited are in a somewhat darker color, but unvisited links will still be in “yellow” (color #FFFF99).

Audio players

These are changing all the time. I have a separate page for discussions about that. Briefly, WordPress supplies a very nice and usable one with their product. But there have been some new ones created; such as odeo, which have a certain amount of usefulness.

Here’s an example of what the default WordPress audio player should look like. The simple default flash player has a width of 290 pixels.

Here’s what the HTML of the player alone looks like, so it can look consistent over all the pages. (NOTE: the box below is created with the wordpress “code” tag. Depending on your browser, it will probably look pretty crummy.

Choose “view plain” and it should display in another window that does wrap decently.)